Meet the world’s animals.

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• Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula

  

  The Baltimore Oriole breeds in eastern North America and winters in Central America. The female weaves a pouch-like nest that hangs from a branch.

• Bonin White-eye Apalopteron familiare

  The Bonin White-eye is a small bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands and now lives on Hahajima and nearby small islands. Historical records also describe a population with yellow, green, and black markings.

• Great Shortwing Heinrichia calligyna

  This flycatcher relative lives in montane forest on Sulawesi and uses dense growth near the forest floor. By day, it searches leaf litter and undergrowth for small prey.

• Fairy Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera nympha

  The Fairy Paradise Kingfisher is striking for its red underparts and long tail streamers. It lives in lowland forest and mangroves on New Guinea.

• Passerini's Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii

  The male is black with a red rump, while the female has a gray head and a mustard-colored rump. They blend among branches and eat fruit and small arthropods.

• Little tern Sternula albifrons

  A small tern that visits Japan in warmer months to breed on beaches and river bars.

• Violaceous Coucal Centropus violaceus

  The Violaceous Coucal is a large coucal found only on New Britain and New Ireland. It searches for insects and small animals in trees in humid lowland forest.

• West Indian Woodpecker Melanerpes superciliaris

  This woodpecker lives on Caribbean islands and searches for food on tree trunks and branches. A black mark above and behind the eye occurs in most, but not all, subspecies.

• Desert Lark Ammomanes deserti

  The Desert Lark has a sandy back and a pale underside. It lives in dry, rocky country, and its plumage varies.

• Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini

  This weaver ranges from the Sahel to western East Africa. It uses dry savanna woodland, thickets, scrub, and areas around farms and villages, and is thought to feed mostly on arthropods.

• Little owl Athene noctua

  A small owl with yellow eyes and brown plumage, found around farmland and open country.

• Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis

  A thrush that visits mountain forests north of Kyushu; females have browner flanks.

• Rufescent Antshrike Thamnistes rufescens

  A scarce, difficult-to-see antshrike of cloud forest on the eastern Andes. It is brown and buff, with a stout hooked bill.

• White-spectacled Bulbul Pycnonotus xanthopygos

  The White-spectacled Bulbul is a bulbul with a clear white eye-ring. In Turkey it occurs from scrub to town gardens.

• Bronze-green Euphonia Euphonia mesochrysa

  This small bird inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andes from Colombia through Bolivia. It feeds mainly on fruit, including mistletoe berries.

• Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

  The thick-billed parrot is a green parrot of high-elevation pine forests. It travels in flocks and eats pine seeds.

• Australian Crake Porzana fluminea

  A crake that feeds on seeds and small invertebrates among the vegetation at wetland edges.

• Dwarf Jay Cyanolyca nanus

  This blue-gray jay has a black face, a narrow lavender eyebrow, and a lavender throat. It searches for arthropods in humid mountain forest in eastern Mexico.

• Three-banded Warbler Basileuterus trifasciatus

  The Three-banded Warbler occurs on the western slope of the northern Andes in Peru and Ecuador. It uses the forest understory.

• Ursula's Mouse-coloured Sunbird Cinnyris ursulae

  A report records this species in forest in southeastern Nigeria in December 2004. The observed birds had olive-green upperparts and grey faces and forecrowns.

• Foxy Cisticola Cisticola troglodytes

  The Foxy Cisticola is a small cisticola distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. It searches for invertebrates near the ground in savanna, scrub, and streamside vegetation.

• Christmas Island Swiftlet Collocalia natalis

  Endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, this small swiftlet catches insects while flying over forest and settlements.

• White-headed Starling Sturnia erythropygia

  This starling is endemic to India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It uses forest edges and open places, where it feeds on fruit and other foods.

• Indian Vulture Gyps indicus

  Adult Indian Vultures have a heavy pale bill and a rounded head covered with fine pale feathers.